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Prediction of ECT Response in Melancholia
Richard Abrams1, Chadragupta Vedak
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School and North Chicago Veteran's Affairs Medical Center, North Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Convulsive Therapy
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
None of 15 individual Hamilton depression scale items obtained at baseline, or five depression factors derived therefrom, significantly predicted an adjusted posttreatment Hamilton depression score after six unilateral or bilateral ECTs in a sample of 47 melancholic men. Excluding patients with nonmelancholic syndromes from ECT samples attenuates the previously reported predictive value of individual or grouped clinical psychopathological features of depression.